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that a bigger government, spending more, taxing more, regulating more, if you will, trickle down government would work. >> mitt romney during the debate, intrade contracts all over the place during his exchanges with president obama. and i guess we've been in the twitter world unbeknownst for me for a while. >> i can't believe you figured it out part way through. >> i was looking at blogs, trying to see what people -- whether i could get any immediate reaction to how it was going. and then i check my e-mail and it said matt mentioned you in a twitter thing. and i'm going -- and then it occurred to me, shy see what people on twitter are saying. and then i did it and it opened up the world.i should see what people on twitter are saying. and then i did it and it opened up the world. >> the one thing i decided is i don't follow enough people. i wanted even more. i follow 181 people. today i'm going to add another 100 people because i wanted more last night. >> and i never thought i would follow bill maher necessarily. and now i realize that a cutting edge comedian, even with someone he loves, h
that a bigger government, spending more, taxing more, regulating more, if you will, trickle down government would work. >> mitt romney during the debate, intrade contracts all over the place during his exchanges with president obama. and i guess we've been in the twitter world unbeknownst for me for a while. >> i can't believe you figured it out part way through. >> i was looking at blogs, trying to see what people -- whether i could get any immediate reaction to how it was...
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so you don't say the government's lying. you can't say that. yet if you add in two months more government workers than at any it time since 1948 for the past two months, the government can do -- >> but that goes to his point the u-6 number is -- i don't know if it's more accurate. >> it's broader and takes in to account the part-time workers that don't want to be part-time. they want the full-time job. so it's a broader measure of giving us the breadth of the labor market and the health of it and that's why when i say the unchanged number, i sort of ignored the headline number and didn't think it was that big of a deal. >> normally we'd focus on the 114, but, man, when you can go to 7.8 -- accoucan the fundamen catch up with where the market is? can it just tread water and the full fundamentals come up? >> look at all the global printing. >> all right. we have to go. jeff, you'll just have to agree with peter on this one. >> okay. see you next time. >>> if you have any comment ors questi question, e-mail us. still ahead, did you ever wonder how
so you don't say the government's lying. you can't say that. yet if you add in two months more government workers than at any it time since 1948 for the past two months, the government can do -- >> but that goes to his point the u-6 number is -- i don't know if it's more accurate. >> it's broader and takes in to account the part-time workers that don't want to be part-time. they want the full-time job. so it's a broader measure of giving us the breadth of the labor market and the...
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we don't need the government to do anything. >> right. >> we just need the government to make sure that there are no bad players. >> but, jim, for a while, we weren't -- there was a stated intention to not add to infrastructure for hydrocarbon based energy. that's where we were four years ago. we had to get completely reject that notion. do it now. >> with respect to natural gas, it's all privately funded. it's not government funded. >> right. okay. >>> we've got to run. we're going to come back shortly. when we come back, we're going to talk baseball and politics after the break. and every day since, we've worked hard to keep it. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help people and businesses who were affected, and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy -- and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. we've shared what we've learned with governments and across the industry so we can all produce energy more safely. i want you to know, there's another commitment bp takes just as seriously: our commitment to ameri
we don't need the government to do anything. >> right. >> we just need the government to make sure that there are no bad players. >> but, jim, for a while, we weren't -- there was a stated intention to not add to infrastructure for hydrocarbon based energy. that's where we were four years ago. we had to get completely reject that notion. do it now. >> with respect to natural gas, it's all privately funded. it's not government funded. >> right. okay. >>>...
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the government could be bigger but we have to tax people in order to have the government bigger. what do you want a smaller government? we have to balance this thing out. >> everything i here is you have to tax more just to pay off our deficit. you have to cut spending and look at the federal reserve running out of things it can continue to do. >> you don't have to pay off the deficit. nobody's ever paid off the deficit or gone -- the policy of paying off the deficit doesn't work. we pay off the deficit because you like clinton, make the economy grow so much, somehow money falls from heaven and the deficit goes away but they certainly didn't start off with a policy i'm going to pay off the deficit. nobody ever said that. >> do you think there's any scenario that someone gets elected, they do some things that make us get back to 3 to 3.5% growth which makes this a whole different picture? >> there must be a scenario. i can't lay it out but there are a lot of things that can happen. in the u.s. the dollar is low and that's a critical input. if you look at where growth has got to co
the government could be bigger but we have to tax people in order to have the government bigger. what do you want a smaller government? we have to balance this thing out. >> everything i here is you have to tax more just to pay off our deficit. you have to cut spending and look at the federal reserve running out of things it can continue to do. >> you don't have to pay off the deficit. nobody's ever paid off the deficit or gone -- the policy of paying off the deficit doesn't work....
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, say in september the government hired 187,000 people and in august the government hired 417,000 people, that's 604,000 people the government hired in two months, that's the highest change in government employment since 1948. that's not the bls doing something. that's the government hiring people and then there was part-time, you saw how many part-time people there were suddenly in the report. >> it's people who want to be full time people. >> it lowers the unemployment rate. 114,000 was not a good number. >> no but wait a minute -- >> and jack is like being crucified for just tongue and cheek comment. >> this discussion you're having is over the heads of most american people, including me, okay? >> that's not a high bar for you. >> no, that's not a high bar but let me say this to you. there are people out there that haven't got jobs. there are people out there -- >> they know how they feel. >> exactly, and let's go beyond that. whatever the number is, it vastly understates unemployment. why? because arbitrarily they say if you stop looking for a job, you're no longer unemployed. well,
, say in september the government hired 187,000 people and in august the government hired 417,000 people, that's 604,000 people the government hired in two months, that's the highest change in government employment since 1948. that's not the bls doing something. that's the government hiring people and then there was part-time, you saw how many part-time people there were suddenly in the report. >> it's people who want to be full time people. >> it lowers the unemployment rate....
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remember, the problem is we've got these government shareholders, the british uk, british government and bae, and the eads who all wants slightly different things. we heard today from the foreign secretary william haig who explains the u.s. strategy in bae and that aligns, as well. if there was anything to dilute that in the merger, they wouldn't support it either. we've already heard it this week, over 13% of the private share holding. that they are opposed to the deal on current terms, particularly worried about solution. they also get quite a nice free cash flow from bae and a nice dividend. they're worried about that being diluted. and they don't see the logic necessarily. there's a lot of hurridles. and very quickly, we have an auction out for italy out this morning. yield does go slightly higher on the three and 12 months. slightly higher yields for italy, in the cash market, 5%, and spain, they've come back down to 5.78%, well below 6%. that's where we stand. back to you guys. >> ross, do you see this nigel dude from yesterday, the guy from the uk. >> he's fantastic. >> nigel
remember, the problem is we've got these government shareholders, the british uk, british government and bae, and the eads who all wants slightly different things. we heard today from the foreign secretary william haig who explains the u.s. strategy in bae and that aligns, as well. if there was anything to dilute that in the merger, they wouldn't support it either. we've already heard it this week, over 13% of the private share holding. that they are opposed to the deal on current terms,...